Consider today, where on a high-budget team you might have, say, 8000 Newtons of downforce on a fast section of the course for a given amount of aero drag. Say 6000N is from wings, and 2000N is from bodywork. A lower budget team may only have 6000N of downforce with the same aero drag - or 75% of the frontrunners.

Ban the wings, and now the frontrunner has 2000N of bodywork downforce - against near zero downforce for a backmarker...

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